The Key to Peace eBook

so heavy on my heart that it seemed the mattress was
on top of me instead of me on the mattress. I
knew I was on the road to hell. Finally, toward
morning, I told the Lord that if He would spare my
life until I heard the alarm go off in my parent’s
room that I would get up and go ask my father to pray
for me to get saved and I would seek forgiveness for
my sins from God. This calmed me, and I lay there
waiting. When I heard the alarm, I ran to their
room and knelt beside their bed. I began to weep
and beg Papa to pray for me to get saved. He
prayed for me and I prayed. I asked the Lord to
forgive me of my sin of stealing and lying and promised
I would make it right. I told the Lord I would
tell the girl I had stolen the doll and pay her for
it. God took my word for the act and He forgave
me and flooded my soul with peace. Oh, I had
found the key to peace for my inner longings!
The key was a desire to find peace and then obeying
God’s Word which said, “If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
I John 1:9. That key opened the lock to my heart
and let Jesus come in. Jesus has said, “The
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they
are life.” John 6:63b. Oh, the peace
that filled me and I became a new creature in Christ
Jesus! I was happy again.

I had promised the Lord that I would make my sin right
when school started. So one day I was sitting
behind this girl and I tapped her on the back.
I told her about my taking the doll and offered to
pay her for it. She said, “I often wondered
where that doll went to, but I didn’t care anything
about it anyway.” I insisted on paying her
but she said to forget it. Oh, the relief that
I then had because the devil fought my making it right
by telling me that she would tell every one in school
about my being a thief. I never heard anything
more about it.

Then I had to make the lie right, for I had told my
mother and all of my brothers and sisters that old
Tennessee had given it to me. One time in family
worship I started to tell it and broke down and wept,
but kept on telling about it. I asked forgiveness
and my father said that they all forgave me.
I didn’t know until years later that none of
them understood anything I said because I had cried
so hard, but I thought they did and that was what
counted. I had obeyed the Lord who makes us know
that we are to make our wrongs right.

When Jesus came to Zacchaeus’ house and he sought
salvation from Him, Zacchaeus said, “If I have
taken any thing from any man by false accusation,
I restore him fourfold.” Luke 19:8.
We must make our wrongs right. If we do, and
have repented and confessed our sins, we can hear
the same words that Jesus said to Zacchaeus, “This
day is salvation come to this house, ... For
the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which
was lost.” (verse 9, 10.)